These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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John 10
Brit Hadashah 42 verses
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“In most solemn I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber.
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1 John 4:1 Romans 16:18 Hebrews 5:4 John 10:8-10 Matthew 7:15 2 Peter 2:3 2 Peter 2:1 1 Peter 1:10 Ephesians 4:8-12 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 Isaiah 56:10-12 John 3:3 Jeremiah 23:32 Zechariah 11:16-17 Romans 10:15 Jeremiah 28:15-17 Zechariah 11:4-5 Ezekiel 34:2-5 Jeremiah 29:31-32 Jeremiah 23:16-17 Ezekiel 13:2-6 Matthew 23:16-28 Jeremiah 23:21 Jeremiah 14:15 2 Peter 2:14-19 Titus 1:11 -
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But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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Acts 20:28 John 10:14 John 10:7 John 10:9 Hebrews 13:20 1 Peter 5:4 John 10:11-12 Psalm 23:1 1 Peter 2:25 Micah 5:5 Revelation 1:20 Titus 1:5 Ezekiel 34:23 Zechariah 11:8 Isaiah 40:11 Zechariah 13:7 Isaiah 63:11 Psalm 80:1 Zechariah 11:3 Zechariah 11:5 1 Timothy 3:2-7 Ecclesiastes 12:11 1 Timothy 4:14 -
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To him the porter opens the door, and the sheep his voice; and he calls his own sheep by their names and leads them out.
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John 10:16 John 10:4 John 10:14 Song of Solomon 8:13 Ezekiel 34:11-16 Exodus 33:17 1 Corinthians 16:9 1 Peter 1:12 Revelation 3:7-8 Isaiah 40:11 Revelation 3:20 Isaiah 53:10-12 Revelation 20:15 John 6:45 Isaiah 42:16 Psalm 23:2-3 Psalm 78:52-53 Psalm 80:1 John 10:26-27 Jeremiah 31:8-9 Colossians 4:3 John 6:37 Revelation 7:17 Philippians 4:3 Jeremiah 50:4-6 2 Timothy 2:19 Isaiah 49:9-10 Romans 8:30 - 4 When he has brought out his own sheep—all of them—he walks at the head of them; and the sheep follow him, because they his voice.
- 5 But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not the voice of strangers.”
- 6 spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.
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Again therefore said to them, “In most solemn I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep.
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- 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.
- 9 I am the Door. If any one enters by me, he will find safety, and will go in and out and find pasture.
- 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance.
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“I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.
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Isaiah 40:11 John 15:13 1 Peter 5:4 Ezekiel 34:23 Hebrews 13:20 Psalm 23:1 John 10:14-15 John 10:17-18 Zechariah 13:7 Psalm 80:1 Revelation 7:17 Ephesians 5:2 Ezekiel 37:24 1 John 3:16 1 Samuel 17:34-35 Isaiah 53:6 2 Samuel 24:17 Micah 5:4 Titus 2:14 Matthew 20:28 Ezekiel 34:11-16 Genesis 31:39-40 1 Peter 2:24-25 - 12 The hired —one who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep—no sooner sees the wolf coming than he leaves the sheep and runs away; and the wolf worries and scatters them.
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For he is only a hired and cares nothing for the sheep.
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“I am the Good Shepherd. And I my sheep and my sheep me,
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just as the Father knows me and I the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.
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Matthew 11:27 John 10:11 Isaiah 53:10 1 Peter 3:18 Ephesians 5:2 1 John 2:2 Matthew 20:28 John 15:13 Zechariah 13:7 John 1:18 Isaiah 53:8 1 Peter 2:24 John 10:17-18 Isaiah 53:4-6 1 Timothy 2:5-6 Galatians 1:4 Galatians 3:13 Revelation 5:2-9 John 6:46 John 8:55 Titus 2:14 John 17:25 Luke 10:21 Daniel 9:26 -
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I have also other sheep—which do not belong to this fold. Those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice; and they shall become one flock under one Shepherd.
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1 Peter 2:25 Isaiah 56:8 Ezekiel 34:23 John 11:52 Ephesians 2:13-18 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Revelation 3:20 Ezekiel 37:24 Ezekiel 37:22 Zechariah 2:11 Isaiah 43:6 Psalm 98:2-3 John 10:2 Romans 8:29-30 Romans 15:9-13 Ecclesiastes 12:11 Matthew 17:5 Isaiah 49:6 Acts 22:14 Romans 9:23-24 Isaiah 52:10 Psalm 22:26-31 Ephesians 2:1-5 John 10:27 1 Peter 2:10 Genesis 49:10 John 10:11 1 Peter 5:4 John 6:37 Psalm 86:9 Isaiah 42:10-12 Acts 15:14 Zechariah 8:20-23 Acts 18:10 Isaiah 24:13-16 Psalm 72:17-19 Hosea 1:10 Hebrews 13:20 Titus 3:3-5 Isaiah 11:10 -
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For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.
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- 18 No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father.”
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Again there arose a division among the Jews because of these words.
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- 20 Many of them said, “He is possessed by a and is mad. Why do you listen to him?”
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Others argued, “That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a open blind men’s eyes?”
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- 22 The Dedication Festival came on in . It was winter,
- 23 and was walking in the Temple in Solomon’s Portico,
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when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, “How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the , tell us so plainly.”
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- 25 “I have told you,” answered , “and you do not believe. The deeds that I do in my Father’s —they give testimony about me.
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But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.
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My sheep listen to my voice, and I them, and they follow me.
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John 10:14 John 10:16 John 10:3-4 Revelation 3:20 John 5:25 Galatians 4:9 John 8:12 John 10:8 Mark 10:21 Hebrews 3:7 1 Corinthians 8:3 Revelation 14:4 Luke 13:27 Matthew 7:23 Mark 8:34 Matthew 16:24 Matthew 25:12 Matthew 17:5 John 8:43 John 12:26 John 21:22 Acts 3:23 Luke 9:23 1 Kings 18:21 2 Timothy 2:19 -
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I give them the Life of the Ages, and they shall never, never perish, nor shall any one wrest them from my hand.
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John 6:39-40 John 6:37 Hebrews 7:25 John 18:9 John 17:2 John 5:24 1 John 2:25 John 17:11-12 1 John 2:19 Jude 1:24 1 John 5:13-20 Acts 7:59 Philippians 1:6 Romans 6:23 2 Timothy 1:12 1 Timothy 1:16 Jude 1:1 Romans 5:9 Jude 1:21 Romans 5:17 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Romans 8:1 1 Peter 1:5 Romans 5:2 Romans 8:33-39 1 John 5:11 Romans 8:29 Colossians 3:3-4 Romans 5:21 Job 17:9 Jeremiah 31:34 Psalm 125:1-2 John 5:39-40 Isaiah 55:3 John 11:25 Luke 23:46 Proverbs 4:18 Isaiah 54:17 Psalm 103:17-18 John 3:15-16 Psalm 37:28 1 Samuel 2:9 Luke 22:31-32 John 14:19 John 4:14 John 3:36 Mark 13:22 Isaiah 45:17 John 6:47 Deuteronomy 33:3 John 6:68 Jeremiah 31:3 Proverbs 24:16 John 6:27 Psalm 31:5 Jeremiah 32:40 -
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What my Father has given me is more precious than all besides; and no one is able to wrest anything from my Father’s hand.
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- 30 I and the Father are .”
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Again the Jews brought stones with which to stone Him.
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- 32 remonstrated with them. “Many good deeds,” He said, “have I shown you as coming from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”
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“For no good deed,” the Jews replied, “are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be .”
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“Does it not stand written in your Law,” replied , “’I said, you are Elohims’?
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If those to whom Elohim’s was addressed are called Elohims (and the Scripture cannot be annulled)
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John 12:38-39 Matthew 27:35 1 Samuel 30:8 2 Chronicles 11:2-3 1 Samuel 28:6 Luke 24:44-46 John 19:36-37 1 Chronicles 22:8 Genesis 15:1 Luke 16:17 1 Samuel 23:9-11 Matthew 5:18 John 19:28 Deuteronomy 18:18-20 1 Samuel 15:1 2 Samuel 7:5 Matthew 24:35 2 Chronicles 19:2 Luke 24:26-27 Deuteronomy 18:15 Acts 1:16 Matthew 26:53-56 Romans 13:1 1 Samuel 14:36-37 -
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how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am Elohim’s Son’?
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John 3:17 Jeremiah 1:5 John 5:17-18 John 6:27 John 19:7 Matthew 26:63-66 Isaiah 49:6-8 Isaiah 42:1 John 3:34 John 17:4-5 John 17:21 John 6:38 John 17:8 Romans 1:4 Matthew 27:54 John 6:69 Psalm 2:6-12 Romans 9:5 Galatians 4:4 John 20:31 John 20:28 Isaiah 61:1-3 John 5:30 Isaiah 42:3 John 5:36-37 Romans 8:3 John 6:57 John 17:18 Luke 1:35 John 8:42 1 John 4:9-14 Psalm 2:2 Matthew 27:43 Isaiah 11:2-5 John 9:35-37 Isaiah 55:4 Isaiah 49:1-3 John 10:30-33 -
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If the deeds I do are not my Father’s deeds, do not believe me.
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But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father.”
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This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.
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Then He went away again to the other side of the , to the place where had been baptizing at first; and there He stayed.
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- 41 Large numbers of people also came to Him. Their report was, “ did not work any miracle, but all that said about this Teacher was true.”
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And many became believers in Him there.
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